We present a Python tool to generate a standard dataset from solar images that allows for user-defined selection criteria and a range of pre-processing steps. Our Python tool works with all image products from both the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SoHO) and Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) missions. We discuss a dataset produced from the SoHO mission's multi-spectral images which is free of missing or corrupt data as well as planetary transits in coronagraph images, and is temporally synced making it ready for input to a machine learning system. Machine-learning-ready images are a valuable resource for the community because they can be used, for example, for forecasting space weather parameters. We illustrate the use of this data with a 3-5 day-ahead forecast of the north-south component of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) observed at Lagrange point one (L1). For this use case, we apply a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to a subset of the full SoHO dataset and compare with baseline results from a Gaussian Naive Bayes classifier.
@article{arxiv.2108.06394,
title = {A Machine-Learning-Ready Dataset Prepared from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Mission},
author = {Carl Shneider and Andong Hu and Ajay K. Tiwari and Monica G. Bobra and Karl Battams and Jannis Teunissen and Enrico Camporeale},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.06394},
year = {2021}
}